Bitcoin price around $78,000, CoinDesk shows

CoinDesk shows the btc price trading around $77,960 on Sep. 18, 2026, with real-time tickers placing Bitcoin near the $78,000 mark.

CoinDesk’s price page lists Bitcoin at $77,959.71 as of Sep 18, 2026, 8:01 am EDT, and reports a 24-hour trading volume of $12.74 billion.

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Other major platforms show similar levels: Coinbase’s price page displays BTC near $78,300 and Yahoo Finance’s BTC-USD ticker shows about $78,191, offering corroborating market quotes across venues.

Live price feeds and market-data aggregators such as CoinGecko and TradingView also showed Bitcoin hovering in the high-$77,000 to low-$78,000 range during U.S. trading, reflecting a broadly consistent market level across sources.

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Short-term moves in the btc price are visible across exchanges’ order books and aggregated tickers; these platforms update continuously, so prices quoted here reflect the moments the sources recorded them.

For readers tracking the market, multiple exchanges and price indices reporting near-identical mid-$77k to $78k readings indicate a synchronized market snapshot rather than a single-exchange anomaly.

Sources

CoinDesk — live Bitcoin price page showing $77,959.71 and a 24-hour trading volume of $12.74B.
Coinbase — Bitcoin price page listing BTC near $78,300.
Yahoo Finance — BTC-USD ticker reporting about $78,191.
CoinGecko — aggregated Bitcoin price near $78,109 and market data corroboration.

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